Somebody in Hollywood thought taking "Some Like It Hot" and "Animal House," sticking them in a blender and serving in Dixie cups was a good idea. That somebody should be fired.

Dressing up a bunch of guys as very ugly girls -- with everyone believing them -- can be very funny (Heck, Tom Hanks carried a whole sitcom this way). But "Sorority Boys," which is as bad at it is cruel, takes every potential laugh and stiletto-stomps the life out of it.

Dave (Barry Watson of "7th Heaven"), Adam (Michael Rosenbaum of "Smallville") and Doofer (Harland Williams), members of the KOK frat house, enjoy womanizing and terrorizing the loser sorority across the street, Delta Omicron Gamma (or, well, DOG). But when they're accused of embezzling funds for the house cruise, they're kicked out.

Adam realizes the evidence of their setup is stashed inside his old room, but since they're blacklisted, they sneak into a mixer in drag. They become victim to the frat's meanest gag, where a whistle is blown, the house yells "DOG catcher!" and throws a net over the unwanted girl to kick her out. (This is the first indication that the lesson of the film will be "don't be mean to girls.")

The DOGs, who adopt the trio, are made up of insecure outcasts: a giant; a bearded French girl; a girl with an overly loud voice, and their feminist leader, Leah (Melissa Sagemiller), who is presumably unattractive because she needs glasses? Living as DOGs, the boys get in touch with their "feminine" side and learn said lesson.

In the meantime, the film steals from "Some Like It Hot." Dave, now Daisy, becomes confidante to Leah as he falls in love with her; Adam (now Adina) is pursued by a yapping young frat boy half his size. It's funny whenever the trio becomes concerned with their appearance (followed by manly shoves to the boys who bother them), but then we're treated to groaners only sloshed frat boys could roar over.

Watson, however pretty a girl he makes, is bland; Williams snarls and mugs with a mutated Kathy Griffin wig. Rosenbaum, on the other hand, turns out to be the film's comic strength. Just watching him teeter miserably in heels is funny enough, but when he takes to the Thighmaster and searches for clothes that hide his big butt, he comes the closest to seeing what it feels like to be a girl.